Posted on 03/31/2005 10:24:19 AM PST by Dan from Michigan
Ex-Lansing detective admits drug theft
3/31/2005, 12:14 p.m. ET
The Associated Press
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A former city police detective admitted in court that he stole prescription painkillers from an acquaintance's house last fall.
Darren Duso, 42, pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking the OxyContin in return for a dismissal of more serious charges. He faces up to two years in prison when Ingham County Circuit Judge Paula Manderfield sentences him on May 4.
The 15-year Lansing Police Department veteran resigned in November, one month after county sheriff's officials arrested him on charges of stealing drugs from the Dansville house.
In exchange for his guilty plea to attempted larceny from a building, prosecutors dropped the other counts of larceny and drug possession. He had faced up to eight years in prison.
Duso declined to comment.
We need police to protect us from crimes like this.
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